Definition of Overlooking

1. Adjective. Used of a height or viewpoint. "The balcony overlooking the ballroom"

Exact synonyms: Commanding, Dominating
Similar to: High

Definition of Overlooking

1. Verb. (present participle of overlook) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overlooking

1. overlook [v] - See also: overlook

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overlooking

overloads
overlock
overlocker
overlockers
overlocks
overloe
overlogging
overlogical
overlong
overlong vowel
overlook
overlookable
overlooked
overlooker
overlookers
overlooking (current term)
overlooks
overloop
overloops
overloose
overlord
overlorded
overlording
overlords
overlordship
overlordships
overloud
overloudly
overlove
overloved

Literary usage of Overlooking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Adolph Sutro, Mayor of San Francisco, has given a tract of thirteen acres just south of and overlooking Golden Gate Park as a site for the building. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(SO) to place their freedom in gratifying the present passion, and their courage m overlooking all future consequences, turned away with indignant ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... three miles from the sea, on a steep rock overlooking covered; the fact was commemorated in the coat HF a rich plain watered by the Drago. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... Conn and dilettantisme tac- tique, while overlooking the factors of energy and overpowering moral force which, through all material changes in armament, ..."

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